Cyanocitta stelleri

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Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests • Minimum Elevation: 900 meters • Maximum Elevation: 3,600 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Ecology: List of Habitats : 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Biology

Diet

Mostly: Nuts Fruit Seeds. Lesser Quantities of: Insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 3-5
• Length of Incubation : 16 days
• Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001.

Similar Species

Blue Jay

Members of the genus Cyanocitta

There are approximately 28 species in this genus:

C. coronata · C. cristata (Southern Jay) · C. cristata bromia · C. cristata burleighi · C. cristata cristata (Northern Jay) · C. cristata cyanotephra (Western Blue Jay) · C. cristata florincola (Florida Blue Jay) · C. cristata semplei (Semple's Blue Jay) · C. diademata · C. frontalis · C. galeata · C. stelleri (Queen Charlotte Jay) · C. stelleri annectens (Black-Headed Jay) · C. stelleri azteca · C. stelleri carbonacea (Coast Jay) · C. stelleri carlottae (Queen Charlotte Jay) · C. stelleri coronata · C. stelleri diademata (Long-Crested Jay) · C. stelleri frontalis (Blue-Fronted Jay) · C. stelleri litoralis · C. stelleri macrolopha (Long-Crested Jay) · C. stelleri paralia · C. stelleri percontatrix (Nevada Crested Jay) · C. stelleri purpurea · C. stelleri ridgwayi · C. stelleri stelleri (Queen Charlotte Jay) · C. stelleri suavis · C. turoosa

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Further Reading

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• A checklist of the vertebrate animals of Kansas / George D. Potts, Joseph T. Collins. [Lawrence, Kan.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1991. ENG url p. 14.
• A first book upon the birds of Oregon and Washington: a pocket guide and pupil's assistant in a study of the more common land birds and a few of the shore and water birds of these states / by William Rogers Lord. Portland, Or.: William Rogers Lod, Office of the J.K. Gill Co., 1902 ENG url p. 274.
• A history of the birds of Colorado, by William Lutley Sclater London, Witherby and co., 1912. ENG url p. 566.
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. ENG url p. 353, p. 597, p. 603, p. 605, p. 607, p. 613.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 457.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 149, p. 151, p. 154, p. 537.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
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• Bird-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. ENG url p. 171, p. 172.
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• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock with ten fullpag Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Co., 1912. ENG url p. 571.
• Birds of the Pacific coast, including a brief account of the distribution and habitat of one hundred and eighteen birds that are more or less common to the Pacific coast states and British Columbia, many of which are found east by Willard Ayres Eliot; wi New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923. ENG url p. 109, p. 190.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3847092
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179691
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13739733
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179685
• IUCN ID: 51094
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPAV02010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13080

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